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Literature summary for 1.8.1.12 extracted from

  • Cunningham, M.L.; Fairlamb, A.H.
    Trypanothione reductase from Leishmania donovani. Purification, characterization and inhibition by trivalent antimonials (1995), Eur. J. Biochem., 230, 460-468.
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Activating Compound

Activating Compound Comment Organism Structure
additional information activity is highly dependent on ionic strength, optimum activity at 40 mM NaCl Leishmania donovani
additional information activity is dependent on a redox-active cysteine at the active centre Leishmania donovani

Application

Application Comment Organism
medicine target for rational approach to design new anti-leishmanial chemotherapeutic agents Leishmania donovani

Cloned(Commentary)

Cloned (Comment) Organism
cloned into expression vector and expressed in wild-type cells Leishmania donovani

Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
antimony chloride assay containing 10% vol. methanol Leishmania donovani
melarsen-trypanothione disulfide adduct i.e. adduct of p-(4,6-diamino-S-triazinyl-2-yl)aminophenyl arsenoxide with N1,N8-bis-(glutathionyl)spermidine Leishmania donovani
melarsen-trypanothione disulfide-adduct
-
Leishmania donovani
NaCl below 5% remaining activity at 1 M Leishmania donovani
potassium antimony tartrate assay containing 10% vol. methanol Leishmania donovani
triostam assay containing 10% vol. methanol Leishmania donovani

KM Value [mM]

KM Value [mM] KM Value Maximum [mM] Substrate Comment Organism Structure
0.009
-
NADPH
-
Leishmania donovani
0.036
-
trypanothione disulfide
-
Leishmania donovani
0.115
-
glutathionylspermidine disulfide
-
Leishmania donovani

Molecular Weight [Da]

Molecular Weight [Da] Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] Comment Organism
50900
-
2 * 50900, SDS-PAGE Leishmania donovani
106000
-
gel filtration Leishmania donovani

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Leishmania donovani
-
-
-

Purification (Commentary)

Purification (Comment) Organism
recombinant overexpression of the enzyme from plasmid Leishmania donovani

Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining

Specific Activity [micromol/min/mg]

Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] Comment Organism
0.2
-
crude extract of wild-type cells Leishmania donovani
2.1
-
crude extract cells overexpressing the recombinant enzyme Leishmania donovani
112.7
-
purified enzyme Leishmania donovani

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates Comment Substrates Organism Products Comment (Products) Rev. Reac.
glutathionylspermidine disulfide + NADPH
-
Leishmania donovani 2-glutathionylspermidine + NADP+
-
?
trypanothione disulfide + NADPH trypanothione is the oxidized form of N1,N8-bis-(glutathionyl)spermidine, the latter form a stable adduct with melarsen oxide Leishmania donovani trypanothione + NADP+
-
?

Subunits

Subunits Comment Organism
dimer 2 * 50900, SDS-PAGE Leishmania donovani

Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
TR
-
Leishmania donovani

Turnover Number [1/s]

Turnover Number Minimum [1/s] Turnover Number Maximum [1/s] Substrate Comment Organism Structure
179
-
trypanothione disulfide
-
Leishmania donovani

pH Optimum

pH Optimum Minimum pH Optimum Maximum Comment Organism
7.4
-
additional 2 minor optima at pH 6.6 and pH 8.2 Leishmania donovani

pH Range

pH Minimum pH Maximum Comment Organism
6.5 9
-
Leishmania donovani

Cofactor

Cofactor Comment Organism Structure
FAD
-
Leishmania donovani
NADPH
-
Leishmania donovani

Ki Value [mM]

Ki Value [mM] Ki Value maximum [mM] Inhibitor Comment Organism Structure
0.009
-
melarsen-trypanothione disulfide-adduct
-
Leishmania donovani